How would you do heavy processing in Meteor?

Question

I have a meteor application that is currently pulling data from twitter and then doing some manipulations and then inserting documents into the collection. Let's say I start this process forever, but don’t want to block the event loop, is there any solution for this?

Note. I know that node.js is single-threaded, and the meteor does not support packages such as a cluster, since it requires sticky sessions. The only solution I can think of is to add a server designed to process data coming from Twitter and forward requests to this server, but then I no longer have to use Meteor or node.

Help will be appreciated.

Answer 1

The truth here is that while javascript / node / meteor may be able to handle, you really don't want to do this yourself. Let me give you some comments and a personal example:

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Answer 2

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